Following the deepest global downturn in recent history, economic growth solidified and broadened to advanced economies in the second half of 2009 and in the first months of 2010 year. Within both groups of countries, advanced economy countries, as well as emerging and developing economies...

Under the influence of the global economy recession, the world goods exports, in dollar terms (nominal terms) registered a 23% drop in 2009, at a level of USD 12.1 trillion, the fall being larger than most economists had predicted. In 2009, commercial services exports registered a drop of 13 per...